Multicultural Calendar

At-a-glance Multicultural Calendar

To learn more about these religious observances and multicultural holidays, including the general practices, dates in future years, and more, please click through the calendar entries, below or visit the monthly calendar entries. 

2023-24 Academic Year

Winter Quarter 2024

• January 2024

• January 2024 full listing
  
  1: Feast Day of Saint Basil 
  1: Gantan-sai  | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events and activities.
  1: Solemnity of Mary / Mary, Mother of God  
  6: Epiphany / Twelfth Night / Three Kings Day / Dia de los Reyes  
  7: Christmas / Feast of the Nativity  | Because this holiday does not fall within the winter break, Eastern Orthodox practitioners will likely request this day off.
  7: Nativity of Christ  
  7: Feast of the Baptism of the Lord  
  8: Bodhi Day  
  13: Lohri  
  14: Maghi / Makar Sankranti  
  17: Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti  
  17: Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib  
  18-25: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
  20: Timkat  
  21: World Religion Day  
  24-25: Tu B'shvat  
  25: Mahayana New Year  
  25: Conversion of Saint Paul  

• February 2024

• February 2024 full listing
  
  1: Imbolc / Candlemas  
  2: Presentation of Our Lord to the Temple  
  3: Saint Blaze Day  
  3: Setsubum-sai  
  5: Saint Brighid of Kildare  
  8: Isra'a and Mi'raj  
  10: Lunar New Year / Chinese New Year / Tet / Spring Festival  | Avoid
  scheduling important academic deadlines, events, and activities on this date.
  13: Shrove Tuesday / Fat Tuesday  
  14: Ash Wednesday  | Provide food accommodations (prohibitions include animal products).
  14: Saint Valentine's Day  
  15: Vasant Panchami  
  15: Parinirvana / Nirvana Day  
  24: Lailat al-Bara'ah  
  25: Triodion  
  26-29: Intercalary Days / Ayyam-i-Ha  
  29-March 19: Nineteen Day Fast  

• March 2024

• March 2024 Full Listing

  8:  Maha Shivaratri  
  10-April 9: Ramadan  | If possible, avoid scheduling major academic deadlines
  during this time. Be sensitive to the fact that students and employees celebrating Ramadan will be fasting during the day (continuously for 30 days) and will likely have less stamina as a result. If planning an evening event, provide food accommodations (halal dietary restrictions apply). Learn more
  13: L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday  
  15: Hamaspathmaidyem Gahambar  
  17: Saint Patrick's Day  
  18: Clean Monday  
  21: Saint Benedict Day  
  21: Fast of Esther  
  23: Purim  | Purim is not subject to the restrictions on work that affect some other holidays. However, some sources indicate that Jews should not go about their ordinary business on Purim out of respect for the festival. If planning an evening event, provide food accommodations (kosher restrictions apply).
  24: Orthodox Sunday  
  24: Pioneer Day  
  25: Holi
  26: Khordad Sal  
  25-27: Hola Mohalla  
  28: Maundy Thursday  
  29: Good Friday / Good Friday  |  Provide food accommodations: Meat is prohibited during meals for some (fish is not considered meat). Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events and activities on the date.
  31: Easter  

Spring Quarter 2024

• April 2024

• 6: Lailat as-Qadr / Nuzulul Qur'an  
  6: Laylat al-Qadr  
  9: Eid al-Fitr  | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, or activities on this date. Employees will likely ask to take a vacation day on this day, and that request should be granted if at all possible. If planning an evening event, provide food accommodations (halal dietary restrictions apply).
  13: Baisakhi / Vaisakhi  
  20-May 1: First Day of Ridvan  | Those celebrating will likely ask for the day off.
  21: Mahavir Jayanti  
  22-30: Pesach / Passover  | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events and activities after sundown on the first days, on the following two full days, and on last two days of the holiday. Provide food accommodation (kosher restrictions apply; the use of leavening is prohibited so, for example, matzah is eaten in place of bread.)
  23: Hanuman Jayanti  
  23: Saint George's Day  
  24-26: Theravadin New Year  
  28-29: Ninth Day of Ridvan  | Those celebrating will likely ask for the day off.
  30: Maidyozarem Gahanbar  

• May 2024

• 1: Beltane  
  1-2: Twelfth Day of Ridvan  | Those celebrating will likely ask for the day off.
  2: National Day of Prayer  
  2: National Day of Reason  
  3: Saint Phillip and James  
  5: Pascha / Easter  
  9: Ascension of Jesus  
  12-13: Yom Hazikaron  
  12-13: Yom Ha'atzmaut  
  19: Pentecost  
  27-28: Ascension of Baha'u'llah  | Those celebrating will likely request the day off.
  22-23: Declaration of the Bab  | Those celebrating will likely ask for the day off.
  23: Visakha Puja / Vesak  | Provide food accommodations and offer vegetarian options when planning menus for events on this date.
  25: Lag Ba'Omer  
  26: Trinity Sunday  
  30: Corpus Christi  

• June 2024

• 7: Feast of the Sacred Heart  
  9: St. Columba of Iona  
  10: Martyrdom of Guru Arjan  
  11-13: Shavuot  | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events and activities. Provide food accommodations (kosher restrictions apply‚ although, it is customary to eat dairy).
  15-16: Day of Arafat in Hajj  
  16-17: Eid al-Adha  | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, and activities. If planning an evening event, provide food accommodations (halal dietary restrictions apply).
  19: Juneteenth
  19: New Church Day  
  24: Litha /  Midsomer / Alban Hefin / Summer Solstice  
  24: Nativity of Saint John the Baptist  
  29: Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul  
  29-July 3: Maidyoshahem Gahanbar  

Summer Session 2024

• July 2024

• 7-8: Al-Hijra - New Year  
  9: Martydom of the Bab  | If possible, avoid scheduling major academic deadlines during this time.
  11: Imamat Day  
  15: Saint Vladimir the Great Day  
  16-17: Day of Ashura  | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events, or activities on this date.
  21: Guru Purnima / Poornima  
  23: Seventeenth of Tammuz  
  23: Birthday of Emperor Haile Selassi  
  25: Saint James the Great Day

• August 2024

• 1: Lammas  
  1: Lughnasadh / Imbolc  
  6: Transfiguration of the Lord  
  6: Transfiguration Sunday  
  12-13: Tisha Ba'Av  | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines,
  events, or activities on this date and after a day of fasting.
  13-15: Obon  
  15: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary  
  15: Dormition of the Theotokis
  15: Fast in Honor of the Holy Mother of Lord Jesus / Dormition Fast | If planning an evening event, provide food accommodations as stipulated.
  18: The Ghost Festival / Ullambrana  
  19: Raksha Bandhan  
  26: Krishna Janmashtami  | Avoid scheduling major academic deadlines on this day, since it is likely that students will be operating on very little sleep.
  29: Beheading of John the Baptist  
  30: Paryushana Parva  | Avoid scheduling important academic deadlines, events or activities during the eight days of fasting.